The Advanced Search contains several elements.

Search: This drop down menu allows you to choose to search the full text, summary, article title, page title or author name.

• Searching full text is similar to the basic search. It search's the text of the site only. It does not search the article or page titles etc. on the site.
• Selecting summary will search the summaries of each article for the word or phrase you are searching for.
• Selecting article title will search the titles of each article for the word or phrase you are searching for.
• Selecting page title will search the site for a page title that contains the word or phrase you are searching for.
• Selecting author name will search the site for articles written by a particular author. If you use this option remember to type the author's name into the key words box at the bottom of the page. It is not essential to type the author's full name into the keywords box.

Category: You can use this drop down menu to select the category you wish to search for a word or phrase. The default setting is to search 'all' categories. For more information on categories see the page on site structure.

Year Month And Day: Use this drop down menu to search articles by the date they were published. Selecting 2001 in the year menu will search articles published in the year 2001. The day month and year menu's can be used in conjunction with each other. You can select to search articles published on the 10th of April 2001 or you can select to search articles published in April 2001. The default search for each of these menus is 'Every'.

Keywords: Typing in a single word into the keywords box and clicking search will return every mention of the word in articles and pages that meet the criteria selected by you in the Search, Category and Date fields. You can also search the site for a phrase by typing in, for instance, "Knockmahon Lodge" and clicking search. Upper quotes must be typed around the search phrase. Very long search phrases will generally return no results. Limit your phrase searches to 2 or 3 words if possible.

Remember that you can use the various fields of Advanced Search together to perform complicated searches such as display all articles written by John Smith in April 2001 in the accommodation category.

The results will be displayed in groups of 10. The results will display the article title, page title, category title, the name of the author, the publication date of the article and will quote the context of the word in the page.

The advanced search facility is not case sensitive i.e. it disregards capital letters.